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Review: Birdie Down, Jim Graham

Title: Birdie Down (Goodreads) Author:  Jim Graham (@jimsgraham) Rating: The Outer-Rim rebellion stumbles into its second day …and in the wrong direction. The third generation residents of the resource-rich New Worlds are seeking to throw off the yolk of corporate rule. Ex-Resource War veteran, Sebastian Scatkiewicz and his colleague, Andrew ‘Birdie’ Goosen, have dared to take on the biggest […]
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Posted on May 23, 2012
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Review: Talisman of El, Alecia Stone

Title: Talisman of El (Goodreads) Author:  Alecia Stone (@Alecia_Stone) Rating: When 14-year-old Char­lie Blake wakes up sweat­ing and gasp­ing for air in the mid­dle of the night, he knows it is hap­pen­ing again. This time he wit­nesses a bru­tal mur­der. He’s afraid to tell any­one. No one would believe him … because it was a dream. Just like the […]
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Posted on May 22, 2012
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Review: Cinder, Marissa Meyer

Title: Cinder (Goodreads) Author:  Marissa Meyer (@marissa_meyer) Rating: Humans and androids crowd the raucous streets of New Beijing. A deadly plague ravages the population. From space, the ruthless lunar people watch, waiting to make their move. No one knows that Earth’s fate hinges on one girl… Cinder, a gifted mechanic, is a cyborg. She’s a second-class citizen with […]
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Posted on May 18, 2012
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Review: The Six, K.B. Hoyle

Title: The Six (Goodreads) Author:  K.B. Hoyle (@kbhoyle_author) Rating: Darcy Pennington hates her life. She is an insufferably average teenager with no real friends, crushing social anxiety, and an indescribable sense of not fitting in anywhere. A change in her dad’s job forces her to attend Cedar Cove Family Camp the summer before her eighth-grade year, and Darcy once […]
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Posted on May 15, 2012
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Review: Insurgent, Veronica Roth

Title: Insurgent (Goodreads) Author: Veronica Roth (@VeronicaRoth) Rating: One choice can transform you—or it can destroy you. But every choice has consequences, and as unrest surges in the factions all around her, Tris Prior must continue trying to save those she loves—and herself—while grappling with haunting questions of grief and forgiveness, identity and loyalty, politics and love.   Details […]
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Posted on May 9, 2012
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Review: Aurorarama, Jean-Christophe Valtat

Title: Aurorarama (Goodreads) Author:  Jean-Christophe Valtat (@theValtat) Rating: 1908. New Venice–“the pearl of the Arctic”–a place of ice palaces and pneumatic tubes, of beautifully ornate carriage-sleds and elegant victorian garb, of long nights and vistas of ice. But as the city prepares for spring, it feels more like qaartsiluni–“the time when something is about to explode […]
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Posted on May 7, 2012
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Review: Dream Robbers, RC Scott

Title: Dream Robbers (Goodreads) Author: RC Scott (@jotoons) Rating: Greedy thieves have stolen the children’s dreams! And not just any dreams, mind you, but the Dreams of whom they are to become. With this loss children everywhere are becoming cross, and more misbehaved by the day. They are driving their parents mad.  Left alone in […]
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Posted on May 3, 2012
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Guest Review: Frozen Prospects, Dean Murray

This review is a guest post by the lovely Anya of About The Story! Welcome Anya!   Title: Frozen Prospects (Goodreads) Author: Dean Murray Rating: – Really great story, minor flaws Frozen Prospects by Dean Murray is a sci-fi/fantasy hybrid about a boy in another world orphaned and alone until his latent potential is discovered by a family […]
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Posted on May 1, 2012
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Review: A Confusion of Princes, Garth Nix

Title: A Confusion of Princes (Goodreads) Author:  Garth Nix (@garthnix) Rating: I have died three times, and three times been reborn, though I am not yet twenty in the old earth years by which it is still the fashion to measure time. This is the story of my three deaths, and my life between. My […]
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Posted on April 26, 2012
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Review: The Imaginality of Somewhere, Someone

Title: The Imaginality of Somewhere (Goodreads) Author: Someone Rating: The very brave and adventurous Ellie, as she would like to be described, and the always sensible and logical Thomas, move, with their parents, to a forsaken farmhouse due to falling on hard, economic times. But there is a reason this farmhouse was abandoned. Ellie and Thomas discover […]
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Posted on April 24, 2012
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